How to get Traffic to a personal blog??

[brucekaushik]

actually i know a two methods .. namely social bookmarking and interacting with other bloggers.

but i need to know how to get some decent traffic to my personal blog thekaushik.blogspot.com

and one more thing to note is that its a personal blog but its has some interesting content and links to my other writing on my website.

[successmm]

Get good traffic to your blog by participating a online forums, writing and submitting articles to directories, blogs paid submission

[Amenda Jessera]

Have you tried with some other social networks sites - E.g: Twitter, facebook etc. You can get more decent traffic over there too. As well as try with your niche related forums postings too. Apart from these, target our big "G" to get more traffic.

[Sumit Menon]

I've gotten a personal blog. And Twitter is a very good choice.

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by Amenda Jessera

Have you tried with some other social networks sites - E.g: Twitter, facebook etc. You can get more decent traffic over there too. As well as try with your niche related forums postings too. Apart from these, target our big "G" to get more traffic.

friend, i got your point but my problem is that this blog is personal and not niche related ..

so it would be a waste of money to advertise on google

and also there are no niche related forums

anyways thanks for your input and also any new ideas will be appreciated

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon

I've gotten a personal blog. And Twitter is a very good choice.

thanks friend,

but i got a doubt with twitter, i got a feeling that those who use twitter are only marketers and not 'ordinary people' (maybe i am wrong) ... will twitter benefit us??

please explain if you can ...

thanks for your input

[Sumit Menon]

Originally Posted by brucekaushik

thanks friend,

but i got a doubt with twitter, i got a feeling that those who use twitter are only marketers and not 'ordinary people' (maybe i am wrong) ... will twitter benefit us??

please explain if you can ...

thanks for your input

That's not true. If you only look for marketers, you'll only find them.

Just scan through the public timeline.

[Vaan]

Just go to Blog Community Like MyBlogLog and build relationship with other blogger there,

Not forget to link exchange for others blogger who have same interest with you,

IMHO A personal blog will maintain high traffic from the community, and the traffic possibly will be returned visitor who like your blog post..

Cheers,
Vaan

[mywebstory]

relevant posting, find your niche , search for targeted traffic

[achivement84]

Hello,

There`s many ways to increase your blog traffic ,you can find over the web an explanation of many ways that you can use, for example and according to Susan Gunelius , you may benefit from doing the following:-

1. Write Well and Write Often
Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.
Furthermore, post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog's content to be noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.
.2. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines
Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! by submitting your blog's URL to them. Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results.
It's important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn't mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.
.3. Use and Update Your Blogroll
By adding links to sites you like in your blogroll, the owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be likely to add a reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the link to your blog in front of many readers on other blogs. The hope is that some of those readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
.4. Harness the Power of Comments
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation. This will increase reader loyalty.
Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Make sure you leave your blog's URL in your comment, so you create a link back to your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a blog post. If they read a particularly interesting comment, they are highly likely to click on the link to visit the commentor's website. It's important to make sure you leave meaningful comments that are likely to invite people to click on your link to read more.
.5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.
.6. Use Links and Trackbacks
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you've linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People do click on trackback links!
.7. Tag Your Posts
It takes a few extra seconds to add tags to each of your blog posts, but it's worth the time in terms of the additional traffic tags can drive to your blog. Tags (like links) are easily noticed by search engines. They're also key to helping readers find your blog when they perform searches on popular blog search engines such as Technorati.
.8. Submit Your Posts to Social Bookmarking Sites
Taking the time to submit your best posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and more can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.
.9. Remember Search Engine Optimization
When you write your blog posts and pages, remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include relevant keywords and links but don't overload your posts with too many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from Google's search entirely.
.10. Don't Forget Images
Images don't just make your blog look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can easily boost your traffic.


Best regards

[Anonymous Affiliate]

Participate heavily on busy forums related to whatever you blog about (put your blog on your signature). If your personal blog is about traveling (for example), become an active poster in the Lonely Planet forums and the like.

[ABigBeznis]

Three Traffic Tactics that won't Cost You a Cent

You can employ website traffic tactics without spending dime. However, knowing how is the real deal. Here's the score:

1. Link it
Of all the effective website traffic tactics that can get you best results, linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used method. Just make sure that the Internet business you are exchanging links with is relatively if not utterly related to your own business. And of course, don't overkill as this might ban you from search engines.

2. Meet Meta Tags
Another way of to acquire your desired traffic for your website is through having your Meta tags contain usually used keywords that target your business. Meta tags help search engines in describing your web page. If you're quite adept with the HTML aspect of your web pages, manipulating your meta tags would be a breeze.

3. Keyword-rich AND sensible content
Writing or acquiring articles that provide solid information regarding your business is one of the best ways. Making use of free keyword suggestion tools such as Overture will help you on which keyword or phrases to work on to better lead more traffic to your website. Making these write-ups very readable and genuinely informative will make you many repeat visitors to subsequently become repeat clients.
Submitting these articles to various article directory listings will provide more visibility for your business as long as you keep your resource box in tact to create for yourself numerous back links.

These methods, if employed properly, will not only make your web site popular but will make you achieve your most desirable result - higher conversion rate.

[MakeMoneyTutor]

LINK BUILDING AND ONLY LINK BUILDING gets you the best quality traffic on your blog.

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by Sumit Menon

That's not true. If you only look for marketers, you'll only find them.

Just scan through the public timeline.

ok i got it ... i too know that but i am a bit new so i am slowly digesting the steps one by one. thanks for your input anyway.

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by Vaan

Just go to Blog Community Like MyBlogLog and build relationship with other blogger there,

Not forget to link exchange for others blogger who have same interest with you,

IMHO A personal blog will maintain high traffic from the community, and the traffic possibly will be returned visitor who like your blog post..

Cheers,
Vaan

thanks, i am already in mybloglog and added the blog there, currently made a list of steps and then i am trying to do them one by one.

thanks very much friend.

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by achivement84

Hello,

There`s many ways to increase your blog traffic ,you can find over the web an explanation of many ways that you can use, for example and according to Susan Gunelius , you may benefit from doing the following:-

1. Write Well and Write Often
Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.
Furthermore, post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog's content to be noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.
.2. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines
Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! by submitting your blog's URL to them. Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results.
It's important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn't mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.
.3. Use and Update Your Blogroll
By adding links to sites you like in your blogroll, the owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be likely to add a reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the link to your blog in front of many readers on other blogs. The hope is that some of those readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
.4. Harness the Power of Comments
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation. This will increase reader loyalty.
Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Make sure you leave your blog's URL in your comment, so you create a link back to your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a blog post. If they read a particularly interesting comment, they are highly likely to click on the link to visit the commentor's website. It's important to make sure you leave meaningful comments that are likely to invite people to click on your link to read more.
.5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.
.6. Use Links and Trackbacks
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you've linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People do click on trackback links!
.7. Tag Your Posts
It takes a few extra seconds to add tags to each of your blog posts, but it's worth the time in terms of the additional traffic tags can drive to your blog. Tags (like links) are easily noticed by search engines. They're also key to helping readers find your blog when they perform searches on popular blog search engines such as Technorati.
.8. Submit Your Posts to Social Bookmarking Sites
Taking the time to submit your best posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and more can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.
.9. Remember Search Engine Optimization
When you write your blog posts and pages, remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include relevant keywords and links but don't overload your posts with too many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from Google's search entirely.
.10. Don't Forget Images
Images don't just make your blog look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can easily boost your traffic.


Best regards

thanks for your very good and well explained input.

[brucekaushik]

@ everyone who replied,

thank you very much for all your advices i will try to follow them.

wish us all great success.

[mikeyman120]

Twitter alone gets me a lot of traffic to my blog. I can track it all between my bit.ly links and awstats and twitter is getting me good traffic to my sites. You need a targeted list of followers. I go out and find them and follow them first and then they follow me back usually.

Mike

[marioilking]

Hi achivement84,
What an informative post. Beautifully explained. Many thanks mate will certainly use your tips.

[brucekaushik]

Originally Posted by mikeyman120

Twitter alone gets me a lot of traffic to my blog. I can track it all between my bit.ly links and awstats and twitter is getting me good traffic to my sites. You need a targeted list of followers. I go out and find them and follow them first and then they follow me back usually.

Mike

thanks friend you explained the process of twitter in short.